Bio

Estrella Payton is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Phoenix, Arizona.

Payton is an observer of people, especially their interactions with each other in prescribed or public spaces. Her interest in power and privilege, cultural conditioning, and systemic inequity combined with her lived experience as a Stateside Puerto Rican, drives her motivation to complicate physical spaces to reorient a viewer’s experience and perspective in institutional and organized environments.

Formally trained as a printmaker, her artwork also explores the use of building materials, constructed spaces, movement, abstracted and appropriated blueprints, map-making, text, collage, and place-centering experiences.